To:HIS SISTER MARIA[2]

Written:Written on December 22 and 28, 1898Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 5.

      Sent from Minusinsk.

      Printed from 
 the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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MlleM. Oulianoff,Rue des Minimes, 40,Bruxelles,Belgique

December 22, 1898

Ihave received Kovalevsky’s book from you, Manyasha,
but not a single letter. This surprises me (and all of us);
since that first letter from you we have not had another.
Are letters being lost? Or, perhaps, you are so full of your
new life that no time is left for-letters? I have had
Kovalevsky’s book for a long time; I got it in November, when
I ordered it from a Petersburg shop; I started reading it
but, I must admit, did not finish it—it is a boring
compilation. Write and tell us when you think of coming for the
summer, what newspapers and journals you are reading,
and whether you have got to know Brussels properly and
the publishing business there. Send meJournal
officiel,[3]when it contains interesting parliamentary speeches. I
intend writing you a long letter after Christmas, to celebrate
which we are going to Minusinsk in a few days.

Yours,V. U.

Nadyasends regards.

Ireceived your letter of
December 20.[1]I am now in
Minusinsk. I will reply on return.

Yours,V. U.

[1]NewStyle.—Ed.

[2]Thiswas written in Shushenskoye on a postcard. The postscript
shows that Lenin took it with him to Minusinsk and did not post
it until December 28.

[3]JournalOfficiel de la République  Fran\c caise—Official Journal   of
the French Republic, published in Paris.